Switching to Perl 5.16

[Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia]

On Jun 19, 2013, at 12:44 PM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:

> On 2013-6-20 02:02 , Frank Schima wrote:
>> It seems to me that we should be switching the default perl in Macports
>> from version 5.12 to 5.16. Are there any objections to this? If not, I
>> will create a Trac ticket about this.
>> 
>> Here are the ports that need to be changed (46 total). Generated with
>> the following command:
>> 
>> port echo depends:perl5.12 and not 'p5.12-*'
>> 
>> I then culled perl5 and subversion-perlbindings-5.12 from the list. 
> 
> Anything that depends on intltool and uses the standard autoconf macros
> to check for it also needs to be updated when intltool is,
> unfortunately. INTLTOOL_PERL needs to match the perl used by intltool,
> or the configure script complains.

I tried setting +perl5_16 as a variant in my full rebuild this weekend, and intltool was certainly the biggest thorn..

Is there any reason not to just do something like this:

~/src/macports/dports/textproc/intltool $ svn diff
Index: Portfile
===================================================================
--- Portfile	(revision 107483)
+++ Portfile	(working copy)
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 name            intltool
 version         0.50.2
+revision        1
 maintainers     nomaintainer
 categories      textproc gnome
 license         GPL-2+
@@ -31,13 +32,13 @@
 
 depends_build   port:gnome-common
 depends_lib     port:expat \
-                port:perl5.12 \
-                port:p5.12-xml-parser \
-                port:p5.12-getopt-long \
-                port:p5.12-pathtools \
-                port:p5.12-scalar-list-utils
+                port:perl5 \
+                port:p5-xml-parser \
+                port:p5-getopt-long \
+                port:p5-pathtools \
+                port:p5-scalar-list-utils
 
-configure.perl  ${prefix}/bin/perl5.12
+configure.perl  ${prefix}/bin/perl5
 
 test.run        yes
 test.target     check

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